Movie reviews

Oscar nomination week is always an exciting time for movie lovers, and we’ve been happy to see some of our favorites — and yours — get singled out for Academy Award consideration. Bryan Cranston, our Movies for Grownups choice for Best Actor, and Mark Rylance, our MFG Supporting Actor choice, both got Oscar nods (for Trumbo and Bridge of Spies, respectively). Spotlight, our selection as Best Picture, is an Oscar nominee as well. All three will receive Movies for Grownups awards …

New: The Frozen Ground If we told you Nicolas Cage and John Cusack were starring in a movie about a noble policeman chasing a crazed murderer, you’d think Cage=killer and Cusack=cop, right? Wrong! Cusack is scary good as the calculating killer of young women, and Cage is touchingly vulnerable as the detective trying to stop the maniac before he strikes again. Filmed in and around a grungy-looking Anchorage, Alaska, the film will not be featured on the local Chamber of …